Nantwich...

Moored Nantwich, Shropshire Union Canal

Well did nothing today.. I say nothing, but my day was actually packed with doing things!  Spent nearly all day on the computer looking at this and that and catching up with the Canal Forum and locating Richard Fairhurst to send him a message to ask who best to talk to about the Waterscape mapping.  Richard used to work for Waterscape, in fact I believe he wrote the mapping program for them before moving on to be the editor of Waterways World.

I got a reply from Waterscape now, the guy that Richard told me to write to emailed me within an hour!

I had a very positive reply too, so I am hoping that the mapping will be better than what it is at the moment.  It takes me 8 clicks to zoom in far enough to see street names.. I need those for Tesco deliveries and the like.  I also need them to find bus stops, in fact I use the Waterscape mapping all the time!

I had a really nice entry in the Guest Book tonight.  It’s not often I mention the Guest Book, but I do have one, the link is on the left <————– over there!

What a lovely blog! We are so glad you enjoyed the Monty (our local canal) and share your disappointment that you cannot walk along the Weston Arm (we live at the other end of it).

We are moored at Swanley and it is so nice to see such a sympathetic chronicle of your travels along this beautiful stretch of water. So many people think of the Llangollen as too busy and full of hire boaters. Not true all of the time as your blog and pictures show.

Thanks for sharing this with us, hope to see you on the cut sometime!

That was from Sarah & Martin Richards, nb Hector's House, hey thanks you two  .. And I thought my account of the Llangollen was a bit boring.  I did moan a bit along the way and I thought I came across as not liking it.. Actually I did in the end, just maybe I was expecting something more special than I saw.

I won a ecofan on ebay tonight.. I am annoyed at the prices in this country, anything from £70 to £90, so I bid on one from USA and got it for $79 plus delivery of $40, still made it cheaper than anywhere in this country.  Mind you I am not sure that we need one, No Problem is very warm right the way through with the Morso Squirrel 1410 that I chose as our wood/coal burning source!

I am still undecided as to whether to go to Chester or not.. We are having a couple of days here at Nantwich.. well, been on the move for quite a number of days, time to stop for a while…